Opening today, artist Katharina Dubbick's scent installation TIMECAPSULE 7:32am conjures raves and bodily fluids
“I would like to capture the moment of exhaustion after a climax – the sense of space that’s left when feelings settle.”
In TIMECAPSULE 7:32am (2019) scent designer Katharina Dubbick creates a room-filling installation with a scent distilled from her memories. It was produced in collaboration with Irish perfumer Meabh McCurtin in Paris and the chemical compound is distributed via steam into the nostrils to stimulate associations with sweat, saliva, cigarette smoke, sex, gin and tonic, latex, sticky skin and cleansing products. Casts of various bodies (a torso, underarm, belly and breast) are suspended in a mist, contributing to the heady mixture...
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